In Re Application for Discipline of Hanson

This is a proceeding for the disbarment of a respondent admitted to practice at the bar of this court. The general principles governing such matters are, or should be, too well known to require detañed reiteration or elaboration. Every attorney at law is held to the highest standards of ethical conduct in his professional activities. It is a ground for disbarment that an attorney manifest professional irresponsibility by the mishandling of a client’s financial affairs, 1 that he convert client’s funds to his own use and fail to account to the client for them upon demand, 2 or that he show a…